Sophos, an innovator and deliverer of cybersecurity as a service, promoted Joe Levy (left) to president of the Sophos Technology Group (STG). Sophos, and appointed Bill Robbins (below) president, of Worldwide Field Operations.
Levy is Sophos’ chief technology officer and chief product officer and will retain these titles and the organizational structure of STG. As president, he will continue expanding Sophos as a leading global cybersecurity as service provider, driven by its fast-growing Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and Incident Response (IR) services and a more than $1 billion product portfolio that spans endpoint, network, email, and cloud security.
Sophos MDR is a growing detection and response service worldwide, supporting more than 15,500 customers. STG also includes Sophos X-Ops, a cross-operational threat and cybersecurity intelligence team of more than 500 experts. Levy will continue to report to Sophos Chief Executive Officer Kris Hagerman.
As head of worldwide field operations, Robbins will oversee all aspects of global sales with a
continued priority on the channel ecosystem, including helping partners grow their business with Sophos’ MDR and IR services and security product solutions.
Robbins also will lead customer support and develop and direct Sophos’ new customer success program. Prior to joining Sophos, Robbins was chief revenue officer and executive vice president at Mandiant Inc., and FireEye prior to its divestiture, for six years. Before that, Robbins was executive vice president of worldwide sales and corporate marketing at Nuance Communications. He also held several executive-level sales positions at Symantec, including executive vice president of worldwide sales, and served as vice president at Veritas software, which Symantec acquired. Robbins will join Sophos’ senior management team and report to Hagerman.
More information is available at www.sophos.com.
